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Don’t scientists talk to each other? For years the Union of Concerned Scientists has told us the polar bears are dying and Hollywood is gonna be underwater (we wish) due to global warming, but if they read the Grower’s Guide out of Colfax, Washington, they’d realize we need to speed up global warming, not slow it down.

I read the Grower’s Guide religiously and not only because they carry my column. Recently I read a fascinating article in it that said Earth is not the best planet in the universe for humans to live. According to the article by Sara Zaske, first appearing in Washington State University News, we don’t have the best of everything. Sara says “there are 4,500 known exoplanets beyond our solar system.” Researchers looked at all of them and “identified two dozen planets outside our solar system that may have conditions more suitable for life than our own.”

This article also appeared in the journal Astrobiology. I let my subscription to that august publication run out, but you’d think some scientists read it. If they did they’d know researchers made a list of traits that “superhabitable planets” would have. For example, an improved Earth would be larger, wetter — and get this — a better Earth would be warmer!

STOP THE PRESSES!

We’re spending trillions trying to stop global warming when according to these researchers the mean surface temperature of Earth would be more ideal if it was 5 degrees Celsius or 8 degrees Fahrenheit HOTTER!

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